Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Bring YA to PA

I had the most amazing time at the PAYA Festival in West Chester, PA, which is actually where I live! It was pretty cool to have all of these awesome authors and bloggers in my town. Here's a recap of the event.

What is so crazy is that this event was organized by Harmony from Harmony Book Reviews and she is only a high school student. Major kudos to her! I was so impressed. They even had writing workshops at this event and my cousin, Christopher, attended and seemed to really like the class. Katelyn, Jamie and I got so many books signed and thankfully, they took many photos. I forgot my camera at home. (UGH!) So, I will be "borrowing" all of their photos to share with you! It was so nice to get books signed in a relaxed manner without the long lines and the one million rules.

Jamie, Steph, James, Anne, Jenn,
me and Kristi

Afterwards, I stayed around to socialize with everyone including Jenn from Book Crazy and Steph from Steph Su Reads. How nice are they in person?! I also met James from Book Chic and Caitlin from Scarrlet Reader as well as Kristi from The Story Siren. Kristi is so nice and hilarious. For me, meeting her was like meeting one of the authors since she's such an incredible blogger!

I made so many connections, because of this event and met so many amazing people. I am very glad I went and I look forward to next year! And what warms my heart about this whole thing is the fact this event raised money for PA libraries. What could be better than that?

Looks like so much fun! I'm so upset I wasn't able to make it! I'm only like 20 minutes from West Chester so I was like NO MATTER WHAT I AM GOING TO THIS! But alas, I did not get to. :( Looks like you had a lot of fun though and got to meet some great people!